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This collection draws attention to what made Jewish people distinctive and warns against facile notions of Mediterranean connectivity, diversity, fluidity, and hybridity, presenting a new assessment of the Jewish experience in the Mediterranean.

This collection draws attention to what made Jewish people distinctive and warns against facile notions of Mediterranean connectivity, diversity, fluidity, and hybridity, presenting a new assessment of the Jewish experience in the Mediterranean.

In this pathbreaking book, Matthias B. Lehmann explores Ottoman Sephardicculture in an era of change through a close study of popularized rabbinic textswritten in Ladino, the vernacular language of the Ottoman Jews. This vernacularliterature, standing at the crossroads of rabbinic elite and popular cultures and ofHebrew and Ladino discourses, sheds valuable light on the modernization of SephardicJewry in the Eastern Mediterranean in the 19th c...

Matthias Lehmann is Associate Professor of History and Teller Family Chair in Jewish History at the University of California, Irvine and the author of Ladino Rabbinic Literature and Ottoman Sephardic Culture.